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This is one of the first times I have EVER broken the four panel rule in this comic, but for this sort of unique scenario, I felt it fitting. It also helps that the first six panels are basically half-panels, making them divide and equate nicely to three real panels. So it’s not technically breaking the rules.

For what it’s worth, I thought the first dress actually looked kind of cute. Any other opinions out there? Which one is the best/worst of the bunch?

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i don´t recognise even one of them, blame my rigorous refusal to watch romantic comedies 😉
as for the best dress…sorry, they´re all yuck, though nr.3 wins on the ‘worst’ front – choking, pink, and that pattern….brr. the last one is a serious contester though – honestly, did they steal that one from barbie?!

…white prom dresses look a little bit too much like bride-in-training dresses to me.
Or like nighties. Otherwise, I don’t see that. White, like black, should by rights go with anything because it isn’t a colour as such.

Allow me to share a link to a website of a book that my Mom got me when I was twelve. That tells you what “your colors are.” https://www.colormebeautiful.com/ For years I carried a little booklet that came with the book with fabric swatches.

Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. My bf wears nothing but gray, navy, burgundy and (oddly enough) pink shirts. He says that where he went to college, pink shirts were de rigueur. They do look good on him (he hates white)

I can immediately date your bf’s college years quite clearly to the 1980’s, when pink was just viewed as cool. For, like, everyone. Pink IS cool. Though I’m not confident enough in my manliness to follow in his footsteps.

Well, I don’t think my wife likes any of them, though she has a soft spot for #3 only due to the cultural weight of said dress. If you were a girl in the 80’s, you know that dress. And it means something.

I must say, most of them look like they came straight out of a lot of coming-of-age movies from the 80s with Molly Ringwald. Though that last one in the last panel looks more like something a figure skater wore to the Olympics, now that I think about it.
I will admit, though, that I actually think the blue one isn’t awful. A bit low cut I think, but the color’s nice on her. Maybe that solid blue color with dress number 3? (Nooo polka dots!)

Bodice #1 and skirt #5 in the blue of #1 would be ideal. The hint of underboob is daring enough to make a rival cry while the smooth flare is classier that #1’s triple lampshade. The color makes her fur really pop visually, I feel. Daph’s visually interesting enough on her own (as indeed are most women) that she doesn’t need the doodads and fiddle faddle of #2, #3, #6+#7.

Let us not speak of polka dots. They have their place at a picnic, but at a ball will only make a rival cry with laughter.

#4 is almost perfect, except the color is too close to Daphne’s – the blue is a much better frame for her natural beauty – and of course she won’t be comfortable in strapless. Let someone else wear it.

Of course what do I know about fashion? I went to an all-boys’ high school and although some would have been delighted to dance with each other the priests forbade.

Star Trek has degenerated. Star Wars, I feel, is kind of lost. Trek is in an identity crisis because the people at the helm desperately don’t want the franchise to be what it always has been: a geeky, sometimes cerebral sci-fi with emphasis on characters and very little in the way of gritty action. Star Wars, meanwhile, is alternately lost down a ‘let’s relive the nostalgic past’ hole and then flirts with a ‘let’s change this is new and stupid ways’ cycle. But let’s not talk about either franchise, because it’s depressing me.

The best Elizabeth Taylor ever looked was in that white bathing suit in “Suddenly Last Summer.” Put a pool wrap on it and it would crush Prom. Course, you would have to look like Young Liz to start off with

Well, it admittedly was not a prom, but we were invited to a birthday party for the richest (and nicest) lady in our town. One of her nieces went just like that. She did have the legs to carry it off, but it offended me as I was dressed to the nines. I very much doubt she noticed, or would have cared if she had.

Hmmmmm.
Take the waist down of the 5th.
Take the waist up of the 3rd.
Get rid of the sleeves
Make it backless from halfway up the torso.
Take the colour of the first, make it 50% lighter, and plain with no patterns.
Result? Either something that looks okay, or an abomination.

I thought I recognized the first and fifth dress until I read it’s from movies and went “Oh, so I was right I had seen them before!”
Can’t remember what movies (because it’s been way too long since I actually saw said movies).

That said, I chuckled audibly at Daphne’s response in the last panel (which, admittingly, I also thought would be something that she would do).

My wife unabashedly admits that she had a grade eight grad dress that looked almost exactly like that. It was, as she noted, the dress of that era. And according to the standard of the times, it was indeed pretty. Now not so much.

[no longer lurking] Regardless of Daphne’s preferences, I know someone who’d be devastating in #1, in that very vivid blue. Actually, I know *two* someones, both completely unaltered, on whom that blue would work marvelously. Thank you for the flashbacks.

Enh, not necessarily. That dress actually, I think, works better the less padding you’ve got. Or let’s put it this way: the less padding you’ve got, the more that dress hooks towards the ‘elegant’ side of things, whereas more padding makes it hook towards the ‘Yowza!’ side of things. Which is sometimes the goal, but you can’t be too yowza. I know many male readers will disagree with me, but trust me. Too much yowza is not the way to impress the real people girls are trying to impress at prom: other girls.

I’m not allowed to share the photos; one, at age 74, still looks like mid forties, stands about 64 inches tall, is not quite to the “yowza” stage, is very lightly-freckled (nowhere near as thoroughly as Puck), has saphire-blue eyes, still needs no visible or invisible means of support, and her hair is still black, in a pixie-tending-toward-Dorothy-Hamil do. The other is first-generation Taiwanese-American, aged early-fifties, looks no older than 30, stands 58 inches tall, is athletic-and-slim like a swimmer and runner, has jet black straight hair down to her knees, is just shy of “Wowsa”, and likewise still needs no visible means of support.

#1 looks like Twilight. #2 could be Grease, or if not, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. #3 Pretty In Pink #4 Prom (the movie) #5 could be Carrie. #6 looks like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. #7 could be “Never Been Kissed” of “Footloose” but probably neither.

You’re right on 1, 2 (second choice), 3, 5 and 6. You win the ‘most right choices’ award. And I’ve never seen nor even heard of ‘Prom’ (the movie), but looking it up, yeah… Kind of glad I didn’t. There may well be a dress in that movie, though, that pays homage to the dress this one is based on.

I have to say that I have not been following any of the comments on this series, so t his may be a repeat of a bunch of other comment, but I think the actual dress will be irrelevant, as it is going to end up in that iconic scene from the movie Carrie.

Honest admission: Lea Thompson in that dress was a large component of my young sexual awakening. Seeing that vision on the screen was one of the first times my young brain thought, “Looking at her makes me … happy? I think that’s the right word?”